> WE had the first PPC boards

Actually, the Pegasos I ATX prototype is based on the Teron CX, which was later rebadged as AmigaOne SE. So theirs is older :-) But yes, MorphOS ran on the Pegasos I years before OS4 ran on any AmigaOne.

> Amiga Inc eventually tried to follow our lead by selling relabeled evaluation boards.

This was Eyetech, not Amiga Inc.

> install a supported network card, until a native driver was created [...] is EXACTLY what
> X1000 owners had to do originally

The OS4 driver for Nemo's onboard Ethernet has not been released yet.